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streakered (/ˈstɹikɚd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who runs unclothed through a public place, obliging friends to negotiate with strangers. streakinessed adj. Reduced by drink to an uneven succession of approaches, departures, and explanations. streakinged adj. Softened by drink into a series of visible traces through conversations other people had hoped to keep separate. streaklight tubeshouldered adj. Sharpened by drink into a dark, deep-water presence that remains unhelpfully close to the coast of conversation. Jago became streaklight tubeshouldered and hovered beside the quieter guests until someone intervened. streaklined adj. Loosened by drink into a person whose past route through the party can be reconstructed from everyone approached. Ashkan grew streaklined, and the hosts traced his progress by the subjects he had disturbed. streaky baconned adj. Emboldened by drink to separate every gathering into layers, with the fattest portion claimed first. strealed (/stɹiːld/) adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of an arrow which has been lodged in somebody else's plans. Drace became strealed and took ten minutes to cross the hall for a glass already beside him. stream bedded adj. Drunk to the point where the room has become a riverbed and the drinker its settled obstruction. Zenaiya became stream bedded beneath the coat rack, while guests flowed carefully around her. stream cabled adj. Drunk enough to require mooring in a sheltered corner before the evening's heavier currents arrive. stream ciphered adj. A drinker who combines each sentence with a fresh, apparently random interruption. Ellakate got stream ciphered and no longer completed the same sentence twice. stream clocked adj. Drunk beyond any reliable measure of internal speed, while the company calculates progress by pulse and patience. Rayanna became stream clocked and required three people to determine whether she was standing still. stream functioned adj. Drunk in a way that plots a separate course for every remark, despite the conversation remaining stationary. Loismae grew stream functioned and mapped several private conversational routes across the same sofa. stream gauged adj. Drunk, with the result that everyone nearby measures the depth of the evening by the drinker's increasing flow. Venezia became stream gauged, and the hosts judged the party's progress by her changing volume. stream graphed adj. Drunk to the extent of arranging one's changing opinions in broad, shifting bands. Lilit was stream graphed, displaying enthusiasm and regret in alternating layers. stream iced adj. A drinker so far gone that small pieces of ice appear to be travelling with the current. stream keyed adj. The state of being drunk and privately assigned a code to every broadcast.